1821. Thanks to the technique discovered by Victor Frankenstein, it is now possible to resurrect the dead. Scotland Yard Superintendent Gregory Temple, on the trail of criminal mastermind John Devil, who plans to use such technology to reshape the world, is now forced to team up with Paris Morgue supervisor Jean-Pierre Severin, Malo de Treguern and Frankenstein's own creation to confront a cabal of vampires led by Count Szandor and the inhumanly beautiful Countess Marcian Gregoryi who also seek Frankenstein's secret... Frankenstein and The Vampire Countess is the second volume in a prodigious...

These two classic French fantasy novels, written in 1960 and 1969, star Knight-Navigator Dal Ortog of Galankar who lives on a 50th century Earth where space travel cohexists with a medieval society. First, Ortog is sent by Sopharch Karella to the far reaches of space to find a cure for the slow death that is killing humanity after a devastating interplanetary war. Ortog returns with a cure, but too late to save his love, Karella's daughter, Kalla. In the sequel, Ortog and his friend, Zoltan Charles Henderson de Nancy, embark on a quest through the dimensions of Death to find Kalla's soul and...

Written in 1865, "Heart of Steel" is the first chapter chronicling the Black Coats' attempts at stealing the fabulous fortune of the de Clare family. Fval, the father of the modern detective novel, continues the dark chronicles that gave its "lettres de noblesse" to criminal literature by introducing the first, great female villain in the history of crime fiction.

Often hailed as the best French science fiction writer of the early 20th century, Maurice Renard coined the term "Scientific Marvel Fiction" to pen a series of gripping, ground-breaking stories that owe as much to Edgar Allan Poe as they do to H.-G. Wells. Until now, Renard was best known to the English-speaking public for his thrice-filmed thriller, The Hands of Orlac. Dedicated to Wells, Maurice Renard's Doctor Lerne (1908) features a mad scientist who performs organ transplants not only between men and animals, but also with plants, and even machines. It is the first of a series of five...

Often hailed as the best French science fiction writer of the early-20th century, Renard coined the term "Scientific Marvel Fiction" to pen a series of gripping, groundbreaking stories. This edition is part of a series of five volumes, translated and annotated by Stableford.

J.-H. Rosny Aine is the second most important figure in modern French science fiction after Jules Verne. Rosny, who was a member of the distinguished Goncourt literary academy, was also the first writer to straddle the line between mainstream literature and science fiction. Until now, Rosny has best been known to the English-speaking public for his prehistoric thriller, Quest for Fire. In The Xipehuz, men encounter inorganic aliens, with whom all forms of communication prove impossible. In Another World, a mutant whose vision is superior to that of ordinary men discovers that humans share the...

Driven from China by the Boxers, explorer Alcide Tremalet chances upon a secret futuristic city created in the 18th century by French Protestants fleeing persecution. This New Paris, or "Mysteryville," has mastered the use of sound and light. But will his arrival trigger a civil war with those who seek to rejoin, and perhaps conquer, the outside world and those who wish to preserve their isolation? Mysteryville (1905) is one of Jules Lermina's most original novels. This book also includes his macabre classic story Twice Dead (1895). Brian M. Stableford has been a professional writer since...

Often hailed as the best French science fiction writer of the early 20th century, Renard s "The Blue Peril" is considered his masterpiece, with its invisible alien creatures that fish for men the way men capture fish in order to study mankind.

This is the second in a series of seven volumes presenting the classic works of J.-H. Rosny Aine, the second most important figure in French science fiction after Jules Verne. Until now, Rosny, a member of the Goncourt literary academy, has best been known to the English-speaking public for his prehistoric thriller, Quest for Fire. Predating Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Rosny creates Lost Worlds of a different kind, where variant species are the dominant races. The Siberian valley of Nymphaeum (1893) is home to purple-skinned, water-breathing men. The Depths Of Kyamo and The Wonderful Cave Country...

This classic French sci-fi thriller series from the 1960s is presented in English for the first time. In the first two novels collected here, Madame Atomos unleashes radioactive zombies in New York and giant mutated spiders in Texas.